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“We don’t track you … except for when we get paid for it.”

Brave Cover Your Tracks Privacy Badger Smart HTTPS Temporary Containers Privacy Possum User-Agent Switcher and Manager
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    Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 577 social mentions

  2. Cover Your Tracks is a website that comes with an agile approach for the users to test the privacy of add-ons with best-in-class tools and techniques with complete online support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    If you want proof: Visit this tracking tool on the EFF website.

    #Security & Privacy #Tool #Software Marketplace 251 social mentions

  3. Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. How is Privacy Badger different from Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Privacy Badger, site This blocks trackers + more. If you have ublock origin you dont need this but it does do more than just block trackers.

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 84 social mentions

  4. Automatically changes HTTP addresses to the secure HTTPS, and if loading encounters error, reverts...
    Smart HTTPS, site This tries to send you to https sites instead of http sites. Using http sites makes you venerable to man in the middle attacks. (dont use http on public wifis if possible).

    #Photos #Chrome Extensions #Web Browsers 2 social mentions

  5. Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers
    Temporary Containers, site This one too has limited use nowadays (which is a good thing), and can get in the way, I still use it as you can have multiple of the same site that have separate cookies. (still doable in plain FF).

    #Web Browsers #Proxy #Security & Privacy 8 social mentions

  6. Privacy Possum monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by reducing and falsifying the...
    Privacy Possum, site This messes with the data that is collected to make it not applicable to you anymore. (stuff like telling the website your running chrome instead of firefox).

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 6 social mentions

  7. spoofs browser's User-Agent string.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    User-Agent Switcher and Manager, site - im fairly certain this does some of what privacy possum does, though this has better controls and options for this one specific feature.

    #Monitoring Tools #Browser Extension #Dark Mode 3 social mentions

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